{"id":198877,"date":"2025-06-20T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198877\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:58:10","slug":"japan-may-2025-cpi-remains-well-above-the-bank-of-japan-target-rate-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198877\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan May 2025 CPI remains well above the Bank of Japan target rate, still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Japan inflation readings for May 2025:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Headline rate is 3.5% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">expected 3.5%, prior 3.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">CPI excluding Fresh Food 3.7% y\/y, the fastest rise in 2+ years (again) &#8230; highest since January 2023 &#8230; said to be  driven by oil and services costs, but if you take out energy (see below) its still rising fast<\/p>\n<ul data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">expected 3.6%, prior 3.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">CPI excluding Fresh Food, Energy 3.3% y\/y, the fastest rise since January 2024<\/p>\n<ul data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">\n<li data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">expected 3.2%, prior 3.0%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">more to come<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/news\/tokyo-may-2025-headline-cpi-34-yy-34-expected-20250529\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo area inflation data for May<\/a> showed higher than in April on 2 of the 3 measures. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\">Bank of Japan Governor Ueda got his higher inflation and now he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/centralbank\/bank-of-japan-likely-to-stay-on-hold-until-january-or-march-2026-20250619\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-7f05d5e4=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">can&#8217;t raise rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Later this year,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\">ForexLive.com<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n  is evolving into<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\"><b data-v-5e3b6b10=\"\">investingLive.com<\/b><\/a>, a new destination for intelligent market updates and smarter<br \/>\n  decision-making for investors and traders alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan inflation readings for May 2025: Headline rate is 3.5% y\/y expected 3.5%, prior 3.6% CPI excluding Fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,80494,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-japan-core-cpi-inflation","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114713690669314523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}